@itsolelehmann: there’s actually an Australian startup building AI drone shark alarms it's called Ripper Corp, and they have this thing…

there’s actually an Australian startup building AI drone shark alarms

it’s called Ripper Corp, and they have this thing called SharkSpotter tech that:

1. continuously scans live drone footage for sharks across entire beaches
2. relays detections to lifeguards
3. then lets them decide whether or not to clear the water

and Australia is now scaling this shark-drone surveillance way up:

just announced $34M in new funding (AUD) 70+ beaches monitored year-round 500k+ drone flights per year

hopefully this means fewer attacks

but it also creates a weird second-order problem

because a study in california found that sharks are around swimmers/surfers literally 97% of the time (with bites remaining extremely rare)

so once we can spot every shark near a human…

when do you clear the beach? every time? seems like there’d be evacuations every day

i think the tough part will be deciding which sightings are actually dangerous enough to clear the water

Fox News (@FoxNews): A curious shark turns an ordinary surf session into a tense standoff off the California coast.

Drone footage shows the shark tracking a surfer from below the surface, circling near his board as the unaware surfer floats in open water.

After spotting the danger, the drone